I noticed that my system (Elementary OS, based on Ubuntu 14.04) is trying to remove working packages through auto-remove. Running auto-remove makes system unusable, reinstalling packages do nothing, ...

I have a sublime text 3. and It keeps me showing "Caching Information" in the status bar, for the line I am editing. It seems it is trying to do something and have not been able to finish. Anybody has ...

I am working on Debian packaging source to install few files on user machine. There is common logic that is being used by debconf/config script and postinst script. So, I placed the common logic in a ...

I'm trying to install the latest version of mpv on Fedora. I can't figure out how to follow the step in the link (create a dummy package that depends on the required packages) without mk-build-deps ...

I just setup Metasploitable 2 on VMware Fusion. I downloaded the image from here. I've booted it up and everything and can navigate around but would like to run a apt-get install update and possible ...

I'm trying to install ArchLinux by following the beginners' guide on the Arch wiki. I managed to establish a internet connection, but right now I'm stuck with preparing the storage drive. Whenever I ...

There's an answer there, but it's two years old, and provides no information on how to do it.
Situation: I have a folder with an executable file, some required dlls and some images.
I want to package ...

Is there a way to restore one single package back to the original version shipped with the RHEL OS?
A YUM downgrade just downgrades the package to the previous version located on the repository and ...

I regularly use Jetbrains' PyCharm, and am starting to use Sublime Text 3 for projects as well. If a file cannot be "resolved" (found) at the location specified for a JetBrains product, an alert will ...

I'm trying to have a single tab open with more than one file, such that when I run bulk replaces, searches, or other macros, and such that when I want to browse through my application, I won't have ...

I used kickstart to automate Ubuntu12.04 alternate iso installation. I am able to automate the installation. Now I want to install some extra packages such as teamviewer during OS installation. But ...

Like in Ubuntu we have the option of creating "Ubuntu update cache server" which downloads and update packages directly from internet and serves other client ubuntu machines for installing/updating ...

I recently moved computers and upgraded to Emacs 24.3 (from 24.2) yesterday.
Since then, I have been receiving what is essentially a stack-overflow error:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Lisp ...

I have a problem as I check my R source package. In my documentation file (*.Rd) there is a example section, as long as this section is blank my check passes, but when its not blank it fails no matter ...

I'm using sublime-text-2 for a while now, and I just decided to intall the new beta of sublime-text-3 to try new features (keeping ST2 installed).
I successfully finished the installation, but when I ...

I'm on CentOS 6.4 and I want to install newest stable version of gtk+. So I got gtk+ from their website, but after running ./configure it starts crying about loads of dependencies that are installed, ...

I'm working on Ubuntu 12.04 Server. I want to install OpenStack, so I enabled the Cloud Archive repo:
sudo add-apt-repository cloud-archive:havana
After the subsequent update and upgrade, I noticed ...